3 Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 is a presentation program which allows users to create engaging presentations for slide shows, meetings, and web pages. The program allows the user to quickly and easily create professional looking presentations that include pre-defined designs and the ability to create animations. This tutorial covers the basic functionality of the software. Starting MS PowerPoint To start MS PowerPoint click on the Start Menu on the bottom left corner of your desktop and select Start All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Page 1

4 The MS PowerPoint Window The MS PowerPoint 2007 interface brings out all the functionality of the software using tabs rather than drop-down menus. You should get acquainted with the different parts of the main window: Slide: A content holder for text and images. To insert additional slides click New Slide under the Slides section of the Home tab. The slide below is called the Title slide where you should enter the title of your presentation and information related to you, your organization, and colleagues. Text box: A box outlined by dotted lines is where you enter your textual content. Slides tab: A tab located in the left pane named Slides shows mini-versions of your slides and allows you to view many slides at once. Outline tab: A tab located in the left pane name Outline that shows mini-versions of your slides but only the text. Notes section: The section below the slide where you can write notes relating to the slide. This can be used by the presenter for practicing the presentation or handed out to the audience. Title Bar The title bar contains (left to right) the Office Button, Quick Access Toolbar, the filename of your document (middle), and minimize, restore down, and close buttons (right). Page 2

5 Office Button The Office button (located at the top left of the MS PowerPoint Window) is a drop-down menu of commands (see figure on the right) that you can use on MS PowerPoint files. It includes creating a new file, opening an existing file, saving, and printing. A menu choice with a right pointing arrow expands to another menu of command choices. Saving Your Work For the first time To save your document for the first time, select the Save As PowerPoint Presentation command. Fill in the entries for the Save As pop-up window and click the Save button when you are done: Save in Choose the location to place your file, i.e. to your desktop, a folder on the hard disk, flash drive, etc. File name Choose a name for your file. Note, do not include a file extension. Save as type Make sure PowerPoint Presentation appears here. Otherwise, select it in the drop down menu. While you work After saving for the first time, you will only need to select the Save menu choice for subsequent saves. An even faster way to do this is to use the hot button provided on the Quick Access Toolbar. Remember to save your document frequently. Backing up your work You can also save your document a second time in a different place. This is called backing up your files. Follow the directions under Saving Your Work: For the first time to create a second copy of your file. Although not necessary, it is suggested just in case you lose your first copy. Save to this backup copy every so often as a version to fall back to. MS PowerPoint File Format Compatibility MS PowerPoint 2007 is backwards compatible because you are able to edit and save your MS PowerPoint document files. When an MS PowerPoint document is opened for editing using the MS PowerPoint 2007 software, the window s title bar will indicate this by displaying [Compatibility Mode] next to the file name (see figure below). The document will be saved using the MS PowerPoint file format when you use the Save command. Page 3

6 You can save an MS PowerPoint document to the new MS PowerPoint 2007 file format using the Save As PowerPoint Presentation command (see figure on the left). Note, you can save an MS PowerPoint 2007 document to the older MS PowerPoint file format using the Save As PowerPoint Presentation command (see figure on the right). Printing When you are ready to print your document on paper (called a hard copy) choose the command Print from the Office Button. Fill in the entries to the Print pop-up window and click the OK button when you are done: Name Choose the title of the printer you are sending your document to. Page range Lets you choose if you want to print your entire document or just a particular page or pages. For example, to print pages 1 through 5 of your 13 page document, you can type 1-5 in the Pages tab. Copies The Number of copies tab allows you to select how many duplicates of your document you want to print. You can view your document conveniently on the screen as it will appear on paper before you send it to the printer using Print Print Preview. It is a good idea to get in the habit of using this feature before you decide to create a hard copy. Page 4

7 Quick Access Bar The commonly used commands Save, Undo, and Redo can be found at the top left of the MS PowerPoint window as hot buttons (see below from left to right). You can customize this toolbar using the down arrow drop down menu (rightmost). Status Bar The Status bar is located at the bottom of the MS PowerPoint window. It displays the current slide (see 1). You may view your document in different ways using the hot buttons to the right of the status bar (see 2): Normal, Slide Sorter, and Slide Show. You can find a description of each of these views in the discussion on the View ribbon. A slider allows you to zoom in or out of your document (see 3) Ribbons All MS PowerPoint commands that allow editing of the content of your document are organized into groups of related commands called ribbons. Each ribbon is displayed by clicking its tab found below the title bar. Each collection of commands found in a ribbon is further grouped into sections. A command is invoked by clicking on its hot button. The settings for a command are chosen by either using a drop-down menu or clicking on the Dialog Box launcher button of a section, which appears at the bottom right of the section. A dialog box may have additional settings that do not appear on the ribbon. Home Ribbon The Home ribbon is the first place to start working on your slide because it contains commands related to editing text, paragraphs, and the clipboard. Slides Use the drop-down menu under New Slide to choose a format for your slide. Page 5

8 Text and Paragraph Formatting The font associated with any text is the way your words look when typed. You can format your text with alignment, indentation, and line spacing. Font Section Paragraph Section The top row (left to right): Bulleting, numbering, decrease indent level, increase indent level, and line spacing (e.g. single or double spacing). The bottom row (left to right): Alignment (left, center, right, and justify), and number of columns. Bulleting breaks the flow of your content. You can use them for listing and prioritizing items in your document. For example, Page 6

9 School Supply List Books Pens Paper Numbering is used for creating outlines, instructions, to do lists, etc. For example, Opening Microsoft Word 1. Select Start 2. Select All Programs 3. Select Microsoft Office 4. Select Microsoft Word Clipboard Section The clipboard temporarily holds text, shapes, pictures, etc., previously cut or copied from your document. The Clipboard section contains commands to cut or copy content from your document to the clipboard and paste content from the clipboard back to your document. The paste command will insert at the insertion point the most recent item that was cut or copied to the clipboard. Cut Copy Format Painter In fact the clipboard maintains up to 24 items in the order they were previously cut or copied. Click on the Dialog box launcher button to view the entire contents of the clipboard. Insert Ribbon Illustrations The commands in the Illustrations section allow you to insert pictures, drawings, and charts into your presentation. To place the illustration in your presentation, click on it somewhere in the middle with your left mouse button and then drag it to the desired location in the presentation. Resize the illustration by dragging a side or corner of its bounding box. Page 7

10 Use the Format ribbon to change attributes about the picture. Picture Use the Picture command to insert pictures that you downloaded from a digital camera or from the internet. Clip Art If you don t have a picture of your own, you can find a picture to use in your document using the Clip Art command. A task pane will appear on the right. When you can type a search key in the Search For: field you will see a gallery of pictures that are similar to your key. Double click on the picture you like and it will be inserted into your document. The following clip art was inserted into the document using the search key Elephant. The border was set using the Picture Styles section. Drawings Create drawings using geometric shapes with the Shapes drop down menu. Design Ribbon You can quickly choose a design for your slides from a collection of pre-defined slide designs in the Themes section. Using the three drop-down menus on the right of the section you can choose color schemes for the designs and fonts. You can choose a background design in the Background section. Page 8

11 Animations Ribbon The Transition to This Slide section allows you to define a variety of ways to transition between slides during the presentation. The Animations section allows you to animate text, illustrations, tables, etc. on a slide. Page 9

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